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Nobody But A Beggar Chooses To Depend Chiefly Upon The Benevolence Of His Fellow-citizens.

Labor Was The First Price, The Original Purchase - Money That Was Paid For All Things.

It Is Not By Augmenting The Capital Of The Country, But By Rendering A Greater Part Of That Capital Active And Productive Than Would Otherwise Be So, That The Most Judicious Operations Of Banking Can Increase The Industry Of The Country.

We Rarely Hear, It Has Been Said, Of The Combinations [that Is, Unions Or Colluding Organizations] Of Masters, Though Frequently Of Those Of Workmen. But Whoever Imagines, Upon This Account, That Masters Rarely Combine, Is As Ignorant Of The World As Of The Subject. Masters Are Always And Everywhere In A Sort Of Tacit, But Constant And Uniform Combination, Not To Raise The Wages Of Labor Above Their Actual Price.

No Society Can Surely Be Flourishing And Happy, Of Which The Far Greater Part Of The Members Are Poor And Miserable.